CHABAD. Likutei Toroth Vekithvei Kodesh [Chassidic discources]

(CHASIDISM).

Hurodok

1887

Hebrew manuscript in an extremely fine precise Aschkenazi script. Brown and black ink on paper. Title within attractive architectural border highly-wrought with floral and geometric designs. Acrostic of Scribe; “Ch. H. L. B.” on title. The Meir Wislansky Copy With his Stamp on Verso of Title

A MOST MAGNIFICENT Manuscript oF CHASSIDIC DISCOURSES Contains Chassidic discourses by the first three Rebbes of the Lubavitch dynasty: R. Shne’or Zalman, R. Dov Ber and R. Menachem Mendel. Also contains customs and exhortations from R. Menachem Nachum of Chernobyl. And a short unpublished discourse by the Rebbe of Kapost, R. Shlomo Zalman Schneerson, author of Magen Avoth, on the length of time kavannah is necessary whilst praying Kriath Shema and Shmoneh Esreh, as well as other conccerns regarding priorities in areas of study. On f.244r. the writer notes a private audience with the Rebbe (Yechidus) before embarking upon a voyage to Eretz Israel in 1892 - a particularly interesting historical record regarding what matters of concern where upon the minds of Chassidim of the past. The manuscript contains an excellently arranged table of contents, alphabetical index (according to the first verse of the discourse) and a most interesting chart clarifying a host of Kabbalistic abbreviations and acrostics, many of which are quite obtuse Additionally found are a large trove of Igroth - Letters of Exhortation from various Chassidic Rebbes and others. Includes the historically important series of letters from R. Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk and R. Abraham of Kalisk in Eretz Israel to R. Shne’or Zalman and other Chassidic leaders. Many studies have been written about the great importance of these letters. For example; Y. Heilprin, HaAliyoth HaRishonoth shel HaChasidim LeEretz Yisrael, Jerusalem, 1947, Y. Barnai, Igroth Chasidim, Jerusalem, 1980 and for a revisionist analysis- N. Karlinsky, Historia She’keneged- Counter History, The Hassidic Epistols from Eretz Israel: Text and Context., Jerusalem, 1998. The text of this manuscript was not examined by any of the above scholars. Although most of the discourses and letters have been published, this manuscript contains variances